A Hacker Converts 25 Cents Worth of Bitcoin into 46 Billion Counterfeit BTC Tokens via a DeFi Bridge
In early 2024, the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem was rocked by a startling exploit that demonstrated both the ingenuity of attackers and the fragility of smart‑contract based bridges. A single individual, armed with only a modest 25‑cent worth of Bitcoin, managed to fabricate an astronomical 46 billion counterfeit Bitcoin tokens—known in the Symbiosis ecosystem as syBTC—by exploiting two…
Sept. 15, 2026, 1:43 p.m.